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Waste Management Licensing (Water Environment) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 SSI 128
Amends 1994/1056 to align it with regulations to control activities affecting the water environment in Scotland.
Waste Management Licensing Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2006 SSI 541
Amends 1994/1056, adds new exemptions: recovering fuel from waste vegetable oils, repairing, refurbishing and storing waste goods, using compacted and baled tyres, using autoclaves to sterilise waste, disposing of pesticide solution or washings.
Waste Management Licensing Amendment (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 SSI 172
Amends 1994/1056 to allow granting or varying of waste management licences for WEEE and specifies technical competencies required for treating WEEE.
Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2005 SSI 22
Extends ‘controlled waste’ to cover mine, quarry and agricultural waste. Categorises waste as household, industrial or commercial. Requires anyone involved in the deposit, disposal or recovery of mine, quarry or agricultural waste to authorised to do so.
Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2011
These regulations will implement the parts of the revised Waste Framework Directive 2008 that the Waste Management Licensing (Scotland) Regulations 2011 do not cover. The regulations came into force on 27 March 2011.
The regulations allow:
- The partial suspension, revocation, transfer and surrender of site licences.
- The consolidation of licences to cover one site held by the same person or more than one mobile plant held by the same person.
- Changes to the land covered by the licence, eg a licence may be surrendered for some areas of land only.
Waste Management Licensing (Scotland) Regulations 2011
These regulations will implement the revised Waste Framework Directive 2008; they came into force on 27 March 2011.
These regulations consolidate the existing Waste Management Licensing Regulations 1994 and their amendments into one piece of legislation.
The regulations:
- Introduce new activities that can be carried out under an exemption rather than needing a waste management license, (e.g. dry screening of mixed wastes, treatment of waste sheep dip, digestates from the anaerobic treatment of waste, and the spreading of ash from pig and poultry carcasses on to agricultural land).
- Remove the need for a Certificate of Technical Competence (CoTC) to demonstrate that a person is suitably qualified to hold a waste management licence.
- Introduce the need for all businesses that carry their own waste to be registered as a waste carrier.
The Waste Batteries (Scotland) Regulations 2009 [SSI247]
The Waste Batteries (Scotland) Regulations 2009 partially implement the Batteries Directive 2006/66/EC in Scotland.
- The Environmental Protection Act 1990 is amended so that a waste management licence is not required for battery collection points.
- The Waste Management Licensing Regulations 1994 are amended to ensure to appropriate conditions are provided for the storage and treatment of waste batteries, and to ban incineration of waste industrial and automotive batteries.
- The Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2000 are amended to ban incineration of waste industrial and automotive batteries.
- The Landfill (Scotland) Regulations 2003 are amended to add waste industrial and automotive batteries to the list of wastes which must not be accepted at landfills.
The Management of Extractive Waste (Scotland) Regulations 2010 [SSI 60]
These Regulations came into force on the 1st April 2010. They implement the Mining Waste Directive 2006/21/EC in Scotland through the planning system. They require planning permission for extractive waste areas and waste facilities and additional requirements for category A (high risk) waste facilities. This only applies in Scotland.